The 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) diameter crater in this image appears relatively fresh, but with little erosion or underground upheaval on Mars and no evidence of an extremely recent meteor hit, "fresh" is a relative term.

NASA’s latest Mars lander transformed an engineering team’s high-risk brainstorming into reality on Sunday, safely lowering the rover into Mars’ Gale Crater. See the top topography of Mars as captured by the HiRise camera currently onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.